Comments on: More Hype Over Over-Parenting http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1701 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 11 May 2026 21:55:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kai Jones http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1701&cpage=1#comment-15184 Kai Jones Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:07:18 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1701#comment-15184 Say it's only one overparent per school. That's hundreds of thousands of them across the US; that qualifies as an epidemic to me. As a parent myself (my boys are now 18 and 22), I've always figured society would blame everything on me no matter what, and (like you) I have always done what I thought was right for my kids, because I know them better than anybody else. My guiding principle was "My goal is to raise independent, contributing members of society who have the tools to find their own happiness." I used that metric for any major decision and some minor ones. Say it’s only one overparent per school. That’s hundreds of thousands of them across the US; that qualifies as an epidemic to me.

As a parent myself (my boys are now 18 and 22), I’ve always figured society would blame everything on me no matter what, and (like you) I have always done what I thought was right for my kids, because I know them better than anybody else. My guiding principle was “My goal is to raise independent, contributing members of society who have the tools to find their own happiness.” I used that metric for any major decision and some minor ones.

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